Twenty minutes per burn on best is about right if you are burning an image that fills the entire surface, from center to edge. However, if your image is smaller the burn time is smaller as well.

For example, if you burn just a title in 36-point font and bend it to a circular curve, the burn time will be about 3 or 4 minutes. The length of the title plus artwork doesn't matter, only the height measured along a radius.


chad evans wyatt wrote:
I have no trouble getting an image, but a crisp and dark one takes two burn cycles; there 
is a registration problem sometimes, cycle to cycle.  Plus, optimum image cycle 
("best") is 21 minutes; 42 minutes to make a good label is a lot of time.  The 
memorex CD has an ok one-cycle burn; memorex DVD, with its different surface, burns very 
light for one cycle.  And a two-cycle burn of DVD label sometimes smears.  My burner is 
laCie, although I believe it actually is a Panasonic.  I guess the bottom line is that I 
like a nice, dark and crisp image; it's a matter of what is acceptable to each of us.  
Perhaps I should try another brand of disc.

--- On Sat, 3/27/10, Robert Carroll <carrollcompu...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Carroll <carrollcompu...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] what DVD-R to buy
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 5:46 PM

I'm not sure that I can help you.  I have never had any trouble labeling 
lightscribe disks for any brand of DVD.

I assume that you have a lightscribe-capable DVD burner.  I turn the DVD over 
in the burner tray, use Nero to make a lightscribe label (in the special 
lightscribe label section of Nero), click on the lightscribe print button, 
select best quality, and it begins.  It is possible to get a slightly darker 
label if the disk is burned twice without removing the disk after the first 
burn, but doing this probably is not needed.

You must have the lightscribe label software such as comes with Nero, or 
whatever software that came with your burner.  Trying to make a lightscribe 
label using regular label software that is intended to print on paper will not 
work.

You could try a different brand of DVD.  If the same problem occurs, I would 
suspect either that your burner is at fault or that you are not using 
lightscribe software to make the labels.  Can't think of anything else.


chad evans wyatt wrote:
Robert, may I tag along here?  I have had some real problems labeling Memorex 
lightscribe DVD's.  Any thoughts?


--- On Fri, 3/26/10, Robert Carroll <carrollcompu...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Robert Carroll <carrollcompu...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] what DVD-R to buy
To: COMPUTERGUYS-L@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010, 5:57 PM

There are differences in quality with DVDs.  Some brands will not play on older DVD 
players as well as other brands.  What this means is that if you are making a lot of 
DVDs, some brands will have more "duds" in a box than will other brands.

For single-layer DVDs, I recommend the Taiyo Yuden brand.
For dual-layer DVDs, Verbatim has done well for me.

I usually buy from http://www.meritline.com/ but there are a lot of listings on 
eBay.


rleesimon wrote:
I will need to make DVDs from AVI to watch on a typical TV DVD player both
in the US Region I and in Belgium Region II where I have a built in DVD
Region II player and a stand alone DVD player region free.  What disks
should I purchase to have the greatest ease of both recording the DVDs and
playing them .what I am looking for is DVD-R or DVD+R or DVD-RW or DVD+RW .I
will NOT archive with them for the most part, but will watch and re-record,
but I may make a few to give to family members who do NOT have a DVD
recorder so I will want some record once types for that.  Advice?  I have
IBM DVD recorder and WinDVD creator etc. that came with it.tia!





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